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Sep 4, 2024 · There are funny, crazy, and of course, sad death row inmates last words. Many of these convicted criminals acted similarly in their famous last quotes as they did in life.
Jul 12, 2024 · By examining the personal narratives of death row inmates, these documentaries reveal the emotional and psychological impact of living under the constant threat of death. They also highlight broader issues such as legal controversies, systemic flaws, and societal views on the death penalty.
- Jimmy Glass, 1987
- Jeffrey David Matthews, 2011
- Barbara Graham, 1955
- George Appel, 1928
- James Lewis Jackson, 2007
- Robert Charles Towery, 2012
- George Engel, 1887
- Aileen Wuornos, 2002
- James French, 1966
- Johnny Frank Garrett, 1992
Last Words:“I’d Rather Be Fishing” On Christmas of 1982, 20-year-old Jimmy Glass and inmate Jimmy Wingo escaped from jail and shot an elderly couple to death while burglarizing their home. Both blamed each other for the crime and both ended up on the electric chair.
Last Words:“I think that governor’s phone is broke. He hadn’t called yet.” Jeffrey David Matthews had his execution postponed three times, twice by the governor of Oklahoma to further investigate his claims of innocence and once due to the controversy surrounding the drugs they were going to administer to him. Matthews was indicted for the 1994 mur...
Last Words:“Good people are always so sure they’re right.” After a rough childhood and a string of failed marriages, Barbara Graham went into prostitution before being married again to a bartender and drug addict. She soon left him for a business associate of his, Emmett Perkins, who ran an illegal gambling operation. The couple, as well as other a...
Last Words:“Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.” While getting strapped to the electric chair, George Appel suddenly found the situation humorous, and delivered those infamous last words. These words quickly spread through the public and became more remembered than his actual crime. He was convicted of first degree murder for killi...
Last Words:“Warden, murder me.” He then referred to Harris County (where he was convicted) as Sodom and Gomorrah, the biblical cities destroyed by God for their sins. “I’m ready to roll. Time to get this party started.” In 1995, James Lewis Jackson married Sharon Jackson and became a father to two stepdaughters. Due to heavy drug use, he had troubl...
Last Words:“I love my family. Potato, potato, potato.” Robert Charles Towery was executed through lethal injecting, which is ironic considering he was charged for injecting battery acid into his victim before strangling him to death in a 1991 robbery. The victim was a philanthropist who loaned money to Towery on several occasions and used him as hi...
Last Words:“Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life.” George Engel was a German immigrant who lost faith in the political process and joined the International Working People’s Association. In 1886 a big rally full of anarchists and labor activists turned violent when a bomb was thrown at the police, killing seven. Although nobody...
Last Words:“Yes, I would just like to say I’m sailing with the Rock, and I’ll be back, like Independence Day with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I’ll be back, I’ll be back.” With a father who was a child molester and hung himself in jail and a mother who abandoned her to the care of her grandparents, Aileen Wuornos’ childho...
Last Words:“How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? French fries.” In 1958, James French murdered a driver who picked him up from hitchhiking. While serving his life sentence, he decided that he didn’t want to live anymore but was too afraid to end his own life. And so, he killed his inmate to compel the state to execute him by electric...
Last Words:“I’d like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.” Indicted for the rape and murder of a nun in 1981, Johnny Frank Garrett’s execution was a controversial one due to the fact that he was mentally handicapped and only seventeen when he was sentenced. He had a horrific childhood, a...
Jun 3, 2017 · Death row inmates are given a chance to speak final words before the execution begins. The words, sometimes an apology, sometimes self-serving or haunting or just weird, hang over the final...
Apr 9, 2023 · On death row, I live with a paradox: I am isolated yet connected, independent yet bonded. I find it somewhat ironic that a person can learn to live life in a place where they were sent to die. The illuminating success of our community is the ways in which we build one another up, rather than the ways in which we might tear one another down.
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May 13, 2024 · Over 30 hours of phone calls were recorded spanning an 18 month period where KJ shared stories of his life growing up in Pachuta, details of the crime that occurred in October 1995 leading to his eventual death sentence, and spending the last 27 years of his life in one of the worst prisons in America.
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Sep 24, 2016 · Tim Sirlane. September 24, 2016. “Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.”. — Bernard Kerick, Tagged: Prison, Prison Life. “I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane as an inmate of a torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy.
